A few nice upload photo images I found:
Would you stop looking at your laptop, and pay attention to me?
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in a Mar 11, 2010 blog titled "Lies and Online Dating." It was also published in a Jun 15, 2010 blog titled "Would You Hire an Online Dating Assistant?"
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Jan 6, 2011 blog titled "Online dating sites – What you need to know!" It was also published in a Jan 23, 2011 blog titled "Singles, Online Dating & Chat Sms Tips." It was also published in a Mar 24, 2011 blog titled "Lonely U.S. Troops Abroad Turning To Online Dating Sites." It was also published in a Sep 3, 2011 www.your-shirt.eu/2011/09/03/schone-your-shirt-photos-3/, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Nov 4, 2011 Schöne Online Dating Photos blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page.
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a May 31, 2012 blog titled "Online Dating Becoming a Thing of the Past." It was also published in a Jun 27, 2012 blog titled "Q&A: Is a husband being registered on an online dating service considered cheating?"
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a May 8, 2013 blog titled "Do Online Dating Sites Work? Where Can I Meet New People? – Daily Dilemma."
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
As I indicated when I started this project in 2008, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
Thus far, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...
The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.
Old Red Sandstone cliffs, Whiting Ness, Arbroath, Scotland
Image by Earthwatcher
Uploaded as a clue to another GWUK photo
These cliffs are of 'Old Red Sandstone'. There are two units in the cliff - the upper, coarse, pebbly sandstone is of Upper Devonian age, and rests unconformably on finer-grained sandstone of Lower Devonian age. The Middle Devonian is missing and is represented by the irregular junction (an angular unconformity) between the two units. The Lower Devonian sandstone was deposited first, then uplifted, tilted and eroded during the Middle Devonian, before the upper unit was deposited in the Upper Devonian times.
Scanned from Kodachrome 64 transparency film, taken with a Zenit 'E'.
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